A shocking pay gap which sees Welsh women lose out on nearly a quarter of the pay men receive for the same management jobs can be revealed today.

New salary figures from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) expose a gender pay gay of more than £3,771 between women and men in managerial positions, with the average salary for all workers pegged at £30,387 for men and £26,616 for women.

The data, covering 1,620 professionals in Wales and 68,000 across the UK as part of the annual National Management Salary Survey by the CMI and salary specialists XpertHR, showed that across the UK female managers were earning only three-quarters (77%) of the pay of men in comparable full-time jobs.

Analysts also pointed to a second salary shortfall for female workers in the form of a persistent “bonus pay gap”, with the average bonus for a Welsh female manager standing at £1,993 while a man will rake in an average of £2,223.

The results also showed the gap is widest between men and women aged between 45 and 60 – totalling £16,680 a year.

Joy Kent, chief executive of Chwarae Teg, which promotes women’s place in the workplace, said: “This disparity in earnings reflects the many barriers that women face when seeking to progress in management including the continued perception that women are carers first and earners second.”

Welsh Conservative Shadow Equalities Minister Mohammad Asghar said: “There is absolutely no excuse for gender pay gaps and the scale of difference in these figures is shocking. It’s got to end and the problem of gender segregation in the workplace must be eliminated for good.

“The UK Government recently introduced equal pay audits and I strongly urge the Labour government to put equal importance on the problem of [the] gender pay gap.”